DOUGLASS FREDERICK

Η ΑΦΗΓΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΖΩΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΦΡΕΝΤΕΡΙΚ ΝΤΑΓΚΛΑΣ ΕΝΟΣ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΟΥ ΣΚΛΑΒΟΥ
Ο Φρέντερικ Ντάγκλας ήταν ο γεννημένος σκλάβος που κατάφερε να δραπετεύσει από τα δεσμά της δουλείας και να αναδειχθεί ως ο σπουδαιότερος Αμερικανός ρήτορας της εποχής του, καθώς και ένας από τους σημαντικότερους συγγραφείς και πολέμιους της δουλείας του 19ου αιώνα. Κατέλαβε σημαντικά πολιτειακά αξιώματα και έγινε -χωρίς την έγκρισή του- ο πρώτος Αφροαμερικανός υποψήφιος για την Αντιπροεδρία των Η.Π.Α. Το υψηλό σθένος του ανθρώπινου ψυχισμού και η ισχυρή διανοητική ικανότητας του ανθρώπου, προσωποποιημένα. Η ανάγνωση της διήγησης της ζωής ...
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(P/B) TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE
"I was sitting upon a low bench, made of rough boards, and without coat or hat. I was handcuffed. Around my ankles also were a pair of heavy fetters. One end of a chain was fastened to a large ring in the floor, the other to fetters on my ankles ... Then did the idea begin to break upon my mind, at first dim and confused, that I had been kidnapped." Solomon Northup's kidnap in 1841 tore him away from a life of relative comfort as a free-born African-American farmer and violinist in New York, and marked the beginning of twelve years enslav...
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(P/B) NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
"I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant." Thus begins the autobiography of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) who was born into slavery in Maryland and after his escape to Massachusetts in 1838 became an ardent abolitionist and campaigner for women's rights. His Narrative, which became a...
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